israel sounds the alarm over a syrian tank incursion into the golan heights buffer zone a residents report exchanges of heavy fire in the area. meanwhile in syria rebel fighters face war crime allegations after a video apparently lynching of pro assad troops surfaces online. mitt romney and barack obama duke it out for crucial swing state votes in the last leg of an election campaign critics say bears the hallmarks of reality t.v. . two am in moscow. good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour

israel's filed a complaint at the u.n. after three syrian tanks and didn't enter the demilitarized zone between the two states breaching a decades old cease fire agreement more details from our middle east correspondent paula sleep. what we're hearing from the israeli defense establishment is that they do believe that this syrian tank movement is linked to infighting in syria and is not an act of aggression against the state of israel she having said that though the idea of has been on the lookout for precisely this kind of development for several months now it has since the syrian infighting approached the israeli border the i.d.f. has filed a complaint with the united nations over the cease fire violation and at the same time it has raised its alert in the north of the concrete what it is now waiting for is for the united nations disengagement force to oversee the withdrawal of these tanks that into this demilitarized zone in the central golan heights at the same time we understand that the tanks were taking part in battles between

a syrian rebels well ever since the nine hundred sixty seven a six day war the whole issue of the golan heights has remained a bone of contention between israel and syria is one essentially occupied the area back in one nine hundred sixty seven and is very reluctant to give it back to syria largely because it allows it to protect its citizens below the golan heights and also the areas around the sea of galilee having said that though the issue has always been the main stumbling point between any current of peace talks between israel and syria and has always stood in the way of we need kind of compromise between these two countries inside syria the army is reportedly repelled a rebel offensive on a key military base in the northwest and al qaeda linked militia are said to be fighting alongside the opposition to gain control of the facility also the un's examining video that it suspects could be evidence of a war crime by syrian rebels the newly released footage purportedly shows opposition fighters executing captured government troops ten soldiers were beating

them lined up on the ground before being shot with automatic rifle recitative journalist james corbett things it's a rare example of opposition tactics coming under international scrutiny. the atrocities are definitely being committed by the rebel forces and and unfortunately that is being completely ignored because it serves of course the interests of the people who are backing the rebels and who are against assad to try to portray them in the best light possible so we've seen over the months numerous stock human coming out from different organization including amnesty including including human rights watch documenting summary execution of prisoners torture the use of children in these conflict on the part of the rebels but that has been conveniently buried in the headlines time and time again and even some of the reports that didn't know some of these atrocities being committed by the rebels were almost always prefaced by reports of government atrocities and that was buried somewhere down halfway through the article time and time again so it is of course and the hypocrisy that's

underlying this and that's trying to manipulate public opinion certainly in the west to to be on the floors and on the side of these rebel forces the only real plan that's on the table that right now that's feasible is the one that china just put forth the four point proposal for the syrian troops which also does not include any language for assad to step down it does not in court include any enforcement language which is a political nonstarter in washington because of course those are the two key issues that they want to make sure is part of any type of proposal so once again we see that that washington is really absolutely keen to make sure that assad stepping down as part of any proposal and i think they're not going to accept anything short of that so i think they are content to watch these atrocities and and these murders and executions and torture pile up in the name of trying to get rid of assad and unfortunately the only real peace plan on the table at the moment isn't even being considered seriously by washington. hundreds of peaceful protesters in bahrain of

come under attack from riot police firing tear gas they were rallying against the recently imposed ban on public gatherings seen as part of the government's crackdown on reform campaigns a prominent activist been jailed to six months for posting a tweet said to insult the king collin cavell a former lecturer at the university of bahrain things they'll be no peace until the monarchy claims. to jail someone for voicing their opinion but only freedom of expression violated any standard of the monstrously around the world there is no improvement at all except that the regime is learning to play the world media like a violin and they claim they support human rights they claim instituting dialogue with the opposition they claim all sorts of changes and that their anger doesn't really in bahrain meanwhile they can do neither crackdown they continue the torture and they continue to do and they continue the killings in bahrain majority

overwhelming majority of the population over three quarters of the population of bahrain or out of it the royal family which has been in power now for two hundred thirty it is mostly they most of the other was there will be no social feat in bahrain and the situation will continue to get more chaotic. with just three days to go until election day in the united states both mitt romney and barack obama have kicked their election campaigns into overdrive racing from rally to rally both working to break their stalemate in the latest polls something neither did the debates nor the recent hurricanes have been able to do here's our he's honest i see it on the home stretch. the blame game in full swing why didn't you call me when you're working on this thing finger pointing p did make it worse mocking he even called it marvelous which is a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget

a tax this president's a lightweight we've all agreed that families are off limits dogs are apparently fair game what you're seeing is them finally rising up to the level of professional wrestling and i see rising up to it. because in pro wrestling in front of the cameras we all hate each other behind the scenes it's a business. and that's the same way it is for them it's a sham a sham largely compared to reality television survivor style start out a limited a.v. contestant on the island and then event they have to form alliances you can call those parties and then they finally meet grant did you know two three five years to go ahead and they and that video gets the big gets the big prize the big prize for years to run the united states of america the contestants are giving it

their all to win the competition the concept of a reality show we all know is supposed to be some kind of reality but but in reality it's just really made for t.v. and the presidential campaigns in the us are completely made for t.v. like in any major production a huge crew and big box run the game if they have people determine what a guy's going to wear what kind of haircut how much makeup you know there's a list of too many for a lot of people to get rich from looks to comments and statements most of the election campaign and scripted. the mainstream media following the presidential campaigns eats the show right up one example i'm going to stop the subsidy to p.b.s. i'm going to stop other things i like p.b.s. i love big bird the debates the first u.s. presidential debate of two thousand and twelve as an audience we million viewers that makes it the most successful most popular reality show. while fact checking leaves the building. in and about track record about

x. when you're in yet most of the coverage. i contact you sporting a giant welcome mat for trivialized news coverage is romney hurting obama's feelings it's obama hurting his feelings are they being cordial to each other or are they being angry look at the way obama looks up and looks down the show must go on until. curtains are drawn presidential candidates putting on a performance to be voted into the white house a superficial media paying little attention to the actual words being said and not demanding to hear the words that should matter as the u.s. election enters its closing act and look to tame and remains king and politics not much more than a circus and if this is. one aspect of the race that neither candidate is focused on much is the u.s. military's missions abroad both contenders promise less war and more safety and

security u.s. national defense expert gareth porter says he has doubts. throughout the campaign and outside the context of the campaign you simply do not have a lively debate in the united states over this extreme degree of military spending and the militarism that goes with it i'm sorry to say that i don't believe . obama will deliver on his campaign promise specifically to. us involvement in the war in afghanistan i mean that is certainly the impression that he's conveyed to the american people and that was conveyed to the american people by the vice presidential candidate joe biden i think the closest romney and his running mate paul ryan have come to making a promise is perhaps the the idea of they would somehow be more successful in putting pressure on iran to end its nuclear program but i must say that it was not made with much conviction and i think it is

a measure of just how in your the u.s. public and the political system have become to militarism and empire for the united states superstorm sandy may not be the only store in the u.s. could face. i think that mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy has some american voters sad. and alphonso since the storm tuesday both that still to come by us. would seem a disease liver on a label put you off calorie packs snacks in a couple of minutes the backlash over canadian medics want to put fear into food and this after a short break here with. horses

and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like these on the internet ha ha ho ho hee hee but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean scream. gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the idea is the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can say proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure his opponents army of photoshop are sort of hundreds of copper fellas is

drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet memes but that's just my opinion. government no longer represents the. people we're going to take the term.

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thanks for staying with us here on r t fifteen minutes. the hour now despite the devastation hurricane sandy wrought across the northeastern u.s. over the last few days it's proven to be something of a political opportunity for the candidates both rush to offer sympathy and each criticizing the other for inaction lawry harshness has been out on to the new york's streets to gauge which candidate whether it best. new york was hit hard by hurricane sandy will it affect the way new yorkers vote or the way they look at the issues this week let's talk about that i was a county alan or sixty four and i seen every day there would just be water. water everywhere was industry do you think that the government has handled the storm well

no how could they have done better they could have gotten the subway running a lot quicker but you think that they have anything to do with how much water is down there no i think they're just really slow to respond i mean the whole thing with the buses over here is ridiculous and it's unconstitutional that you have to have three people in a car i used to going to vote on tuesday is that no than. the city could have been wiped away if the voting polls still stand i have to be there. reacted to it it seems to be getting. to be. yes so do you think that obama's looking better than romney right now. i think mitt romney is a much bigger natural disaster than hurricane sandy and i hope people realize that vote for obama you don't think there's anything wrong with obama i think there's plenty wrong in terms of his. foreign policy in the mideast but

unfortunately he's the lesser evil the bottom line is this has been a tough time for new york city and most of us are looking forward to putting this hurricane and the election behind us. parties giving american voters a different perspective every day the full choice of white house hopefuls to choose from monday the final debate between third party candidates live from our d.c. studios. will two parties keep us politics a one way street. or will new voices disrupt the power power of the. us if american changes. this election will close monday nov fifth on our team. russian prime minister dmitry medvedev says the pussy riot punk band should not have been jailed for their moscow cathedral stunt but expressed condemnation

over their ethics. people you know very unpleasant to me by the outside and only in they filled me with extreme negative emotions so much so that i don't like talking about the move to do it but i wouldn't put them in jail if i were a judge just because i don't consider it correct that their punishment was in the form of a custodial sentence they've already spent some time in custody that's actually enough. three members of the pussy riot band were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after performing their so-called punk prayer and moscow's main cathedral they were sentenced to two years in jail but one was released on probation after an appeal the woman insists there still was political and aimed at the authorities but their actions caused outrage among the religious community and divided russia's public opinion. turning now to our doctors rather in canada have come out with

a very explicit warning about the health risks of obesity but critics say the alarming labels will unfairly and inaccurately equate everyday meals and drinks with the more harmful effects of tobacco and alcohol tom barton explains. imagine you're about to bite into your pizza when you see this disease liver or perhaps you're taking a swig of your drink when this diseased foot catches your eye put off your food well that's just the effect some doctors in canada want frustrated with a growing epidemic of obesity the entire medical association have taken a leaf from their anti smoking contemporaries book and called for graphic labeling on fatty sugary and salty processed foods they say society must stop tiptoeing around health risks such as diabetes heart and liver disease which can arise from eating too much of certain foods what we want to do is we want to tax foods that are high in calories in the nutritional value and give tax breaks to healthy foods but as you might imagine the shock food tactics have been hard to swallow for those

who make or enjoy eating with targeted products they think the labels are over the top and accuse doctors of demonizing certain products and food categories hearing bacco every day beverage items nonsensical smoking tobacco products do not really have a balance in a healthy place that various food and beverage products which the ontario medical association would place label warning or i can absolutely heart of a balance. other proposals that have sparked controversy include labeling excessive salt sugar and fat as pathogens that is disease causing viruses and bacteria age limits for buying soft drinks and temporarily taking some obese children away from their parents william endl author of seeds of destruction says the doctors are right about the dangers of highly processed foods but that these labels will simply

be ignored i don't know any single cigarette smoker who you know they pick up their cigarettes with. their blithely thought i don't think that stuff. but if the foods are engineer today in this private lab what foods are engineers today in many cases to be addicted to stimulate the pleasure center of the brain so until you forced by law to change that kind of who content you're not going to have a solution to this my mother theo and they also recommends higher taxes and marketing restrictions on junk food especially to children to stick suggest twenty six percent of canadian children aged five to seventeen are overweight or obese. finally in this news block while big pharmaceutical companies spend a fortune developing medicines to cure the world's diseases their products are often un affordable to people in developing countries in india though one by a lab is working on a vaccine that could save thousands of lives and cost just

a dollar artie's prius rita has more. this is india's genome valley inside these quiet sterile labs there's a revolution taking place that could change the world's approach to public health and potentially save the lives of one hundred thousand indian children every year bharath biotech is an indian firm developing a one dollar vaccine against rotavirus a disease which causes diarrhea in infants and is deadly in the developing world but i think also like a new generation of diplomats like us ok moneymaking is also important but then solving the life saving those life or corner doesn't change it's also what a critical a new study shows india is leading the way in treating people in remote areas in battling diseases which are shunned by the big pharmaceutical companies because immunizations in the developed world have all but a blitter rated them dr krishna ella believes the big pharma companies haven't really dived into creating products for developing markets because they haven't had

the financial incentive and that's why like many of his fellow indian entrepreneurs he decided to look into it himself there was a lot of the focus of this short our shareholders are going to define what it was a value you'll be in research for one billion dollars on the product identified but it also says this is moving all. of them are going to be more focused on the migratory pieces because it's not a global importance india's leap into innovating for the under-served began when the country began complying with the global intellectual property law it forced them to stop making only cheap copies of existing drugs and branch out instead into new research and development creating vaccines isn't the only way to bow out on the collective diseases diagnostic tests are also key to identifying what the problem is this fabric chip is being developed here to chair a lab in bangalore the idea is with just one drop of blood on the spot for me you could diagnose at home or in a doctor's office potentially reaching millions of people in this country who don't have access to proper health care dr done jiah done the koori. the brains behind

the fabric chip believes that other more profit driven companies will start to take an interest once they realize just how big this market really is a volume just like sort of. like millions or billions of this me so i want to how she'd be trying is that people who get interested maybe the price point and part of. the west put it some number that starts making sense in your report into india's growing r. and d. capability says the country might not need that big power players to make an impact in india has the. dollar and to be able to do these sorts of things and focus on it is that important in this country and i live in countries taking matters into their own hands to save the lives of their countries people and not waiting for the big profit driven pharmaceutical companies to make the first play preassure either r t bangalore india. still to come or a look at the roots of the occupy movement that's after

a short break stay with us. docked in between the russian mainland japan and the sun coming island is the island of minute on named off the french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the right of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders zone and was completely restricted to visit is no to speak to us place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top which direction. you. need to be has been exploring the deaths of the world seas for several decades but

it's here at more normal i live. where he has finally found what he'd been looking for. the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the world here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the. iran tops my list while some go to the region to enjoy the sights convert the nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight. hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious caviar and necessary attribute of any feast. the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . this is. mentally. operates in only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and

delicious seafood. for a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become a major tourist destination. the six america votes for its next president. to take the wheel as the u.s. drives into the feature. get the news the mainstream missives with up close election rage the u.s. election up close. and altie dot com i'm in sochi the only city in europe the host of the twenty fold see the winter the ticket. thank you. so much.

thank you the. dog days of. the days it. takes. to see it's so true. my name is dan as i made this movie and there are a few things you should know about me right from the jump i'm not an expert on the economy climate change or foreign policy i'm also not an expert on sustainable farming systems the history of social movements or lego's the occupy movement has experts on all those things and more not really want to i'm happily married husband a father of two fantastic children i live on a main street in a small new england town with actual white picket fences i made this movie for you me and everyone we know in the hope that we can create

a world where human need comes before corporate greed so why does it feel almost un-american to say that i think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appear. is it a shareholders meeting of a company or paper to defend his actions and his grotesque world view and delivers the now famous speech where he says. for lack of better word is good. we just write great works. greek. and can. guess. at the age. and. in my mind. well not the state held by but that other malfunctioning rate he was. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighties wanted to be gordon gekko.